Humberto Duque

*1978, Mexico, lives and works in Mexico CityResidency period: April until June 2014Artist

In his line of research he incorporates elements of fiction that navigate through language, music, architecture, and even baseball. Although simple in essence, this engagement develops into pieces of a larger puzzle, inviting the audience to be immersed in bewildering scenarios. In this process, aspects of popular culture meet head-on with divergent moments of fantasy, hence unfolding incidents of a time that is not ours to call our own. As a consequence, his practice incites artificial landscapes where the absurd and the uncertain prevail.

Humberto Duque attended art school at the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City and at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has participated in the CCA Kitakyushu Research Program in Japan, and has been a resident artist at the ISCP in New York City; Montalvo Arts Center in California; Tokyo Wonder Site; Changdong National Art Studio in Seoul, and several other programs. He has been commissioned public art projects by the Denver International Airport and the Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder in Norway. His work has been shown in exhibitions around the world.